ebon

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛbən/

Noun

ebon (plural ebons)

1. (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.

Adjective

ebon

1. (poetic) Made of ebony.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:

     “A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name, / But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare […].”

   • 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, I:

     Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world.

2. (poetic) Black in colour.

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